The Renaissance is where we begin. The setting is Florence, 1480.
The book is Meditations on the Soul: Selected Letters of Marsilio Ficino.
The subject is astrology.
Ficino was a Catholic priest and an astrologer.
Words from the dawn of modernity, the Renaissance… This letter is titled: “Marsilio Ficino of Florence to Lorenzo de Medici, the Younger.” Ficino led the Platonic Academy in Florence in the 15th century, during the Renaissance. He studied and translated the dialogues of Plato.
Ficino wrote to Medici his definitions of the planets and what they stood for. “Swiftness” for Mars, with the Sun as God. Jupiter represents “the law,” while Mercury is “reason.” Venus, according to Ficino, is “human nature.”
Ficino talks about the Moon “within you” in this same letter, that must turn to the Sun which is God. ... ...
NO PLANET MAKES A PERSON ACT. Free will rules…until eclipse season...
What is godlier than appreciating the whole of creation, which is but a puzzle for humans to solve through individual experience.
You can’t solve the question of astrology and spirituality from the outside; it must be an experience led from within.
The inner sanctum of a person’s individual processes.
Meditation and spiritual coupling across portals of the mind, led by symbols and mathematical connections represented across the sky.
There’s a New Moon on April 30th which is a partial solar eclipse, but it’s wise to ignore the word “partial.” All solar eclipses happen on New Moons, but the importance of eclipses is worth emphasis.
This is the FATED portion of the human ride. ...
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